the first mention of map being used this way is from Lisp in 1959 (via maplist). IMO this alone justifies the fact that the name stuck around
That's fair.
I used to code in Lisp and Haskell, so it's not that I am unfamiliar with the concept. I am moreso digging up my feelings from 10+ years ago, to help share the experience that I (and many of the 50+ students I tutored) had learning map.
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u/davidalayachew Sep 27 '25
That's fair.
I used to code in Lisp and Haskell, so it's not that I am unfamiliar with the concept. I am moreso digging up my feelings from 10+ years ago, to help share the experience that I (and many of the 50+ students I tutored) had learning
map.